I Want To Thank My Daughter, Who

You Gotta Have The Balls To Go Out There And Be Funny, Man.

What's Weird Is When You Meet A Girl Who Is 23 And You Are Talking To Her, Even Her Voice Is High-pitched, She's Young. You Ask Her How Old She Is, She Says, 'twenty-three, How Old Are You?' And When I Tell Her I'm 41 It's Like I've Just Told Her I Have Cancer. It's, 'oh My God, How Long Have You Had That?'

I Went To College On A Classical Piano Scholarship. My Grandmother Made Me Practice One Full Hour A Day. Every Day. Man. I Thought All She Wanted Was For Me Not To Have Any Fun. Next Thing You Know, You Have A Career In Music. Now, Not Everybody's Going To Go On And Be Mozart Or Michael Jackson. But Music Makes You Smarter.

In Looking At Hollywood And Its Structure, The Director Controls The Medium, And I Want To Be In Control Of Certain Things. I Want To Be Able To Get My Own Ideas And My Own Feelings Out There, And The Only Way To Do That Is To Be Behind The Camera.

It's Hard To Be A Celebrity Nowadays. It's Not About Your Track Record Anymore. If You Have A Great Movie, You're Good. If Not, People Are Ready To Write You Off. I Think The Only Ones Who Are Really Winning Are People Like Will Smith. People Go, 'oh, It's Will Smith. I've Got To See Him, Whatever He's In.'